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Publications récentes
ESA Working Paper 03-05
Document de travail, 2003
This study investigates the relationship between nutrition intake and economic growth as an attempt to provide useful insights for FAO’s Anti-Hunger Programme. It addresses the question of how much economic growth is lost by a...
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Discerning transient from chronic poverty in Nicaragua: measurement with a two period panel data set
ESA Working Paper 03-03
Document de travail, 2003
This paper deals with consumption dynamics and its effects on poverty. An econometric model is proposed in which changes in consumption across time are seen as fluctuations around the level of consumption that each family...
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ESA Working Paper 03-02
Document de travail, 2003
The present study analyzes the nature of Ukrainian farm debt by investigating whether the debt servicing problem of Ukrainian farms is more of a debt problem or a net income problem. Net income generation appears...
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ESA Working Paper 03-01
Document de travail, 2003
Three institutional pillars form the foundations of sustainable financial markets: The existence of a pool of profitable and diverse rural clients with the ability to service loans, well-run financial institutions which are financially self supporting...
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Livre/chapitre d’un livre, 2003
This publication is the proceedings of the 24th International Rice Research Conference, the scientific program of the first International Rice Congress. It contains the selected papers presented during the 24th IRRC, along with President Jiang...
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Articles de presse, 2003
This paper employs a latent variable approach to isolate the effects of changing tastes on the share of total meat expenditure on different categories of meat products in Greece during the period 1965–1995. We find...
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Articles de presse, 2003
Opinions differ as to the importance of organic amendments (OA) for sustaining crop productivity in the intensive, irrigated rice systems of Asia. Our objectives were to (1) quantify the effects of farmyard manure (FYM) and...
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Articles de presse, 2003
Using a nationally representative dataset, and information on why farmers did not purchase fertilizer, the authors estimate a double-hurdle fertilizer adoption model for Ethiopia. Access is an overriding constraint in four zones. Credit is shown...
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Monitoring progress towards the World Food Summit and Millennium Development Goals
Publication phare, 2003
FAO’s latest estimates of hunger around the world offer striking evidence that progress toward the World Food Summit (WFS) goal is possible. They also show conclusively that without redoubled national and global commitment the goal...
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Articles de presse, 2003
Cross entropy is used to estimate the Almost Ideal Demand System for consumption in Greece. The entropy estimates are found to improve upon the SUR estimates. It is recommended that practitioners consider employing entropy based...
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